Australia has announced some major changes to its immigration system, including eligible occupations for permanent and temporary immigration. In the latest update, 36 new occupations have been added to the Medium and Long-Term Skill List, including professional footballers and tennis coaches. The new changes will apply to new applications and will not affect existing nominations […]
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Minister Coleman has announced today that the new five year sponsored parent visa, the Subclass 870 Parent (Temporary) Visa, will be open for application on 17 April 2019. Parents will be able to stay for up to five years at a time without departing and the Department has announced that up to 15,000 per year will be granted.
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From 1 March 2019, Trades Recognition Australia require skills assessment fees for the following services to be paid through the TRA Online Portal: TSS Skills Assessment Program (TSS program) Offshore Skills Assessment Program (OSAP) Trades Recognition Service (TRS) Before a payment can be made, applicants must select a TRA approved registered training organisation to conduct their
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Legislative Instrument – F2019L00196 – Migration Amendment (Working Holiday Maker) Regulations 2019, increases the maximum number of Subclass 417 and 462 visas a person may hold in Australia to three visas. These Regulations increase the maximum number of ‘working holiday maker’ visas from two to three, where the visa holder meets additional work requirements. The applicant is required to complete 6
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Immigration SA is introducing some changes to its general skilled migration nomination policies. All involve offering greater opportunity for nomination, with graduates of South Australia’s educational institutions particularly benefiting. The changes include: Rewarding international students that have been long-term residents of South Australia – Residing continuously in South Australia since at least March 2012 A
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The table below shows the number of invitations issued in the SkillSelect invitation round on 11 January 2019. This round (one month period) issued 2490 subclass 189 and 10 subclass 489 visa invitations. The major invitation point 75, cut-off is 70. Accountants are invited with 80 points. Invitations issued during 2018-19 program year 11 January 2019 results The following
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Queensland Business and Skilled Migration (BSMQ) has announced that it has closed state nomination for all business and skilled visas from today 8 February 2019. No further invitations will be issued from this date. BSMQ will continue to process applications which have been already invited for state nomination prior to this date until our quota is exhausted.
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General Professional Occupations – Employment Date VETASSESS currently uses only month and year to calculate the employment dates. As of 14 February 2019, VETASSESS will be considering the exact date, including day, month and year for the Date Deemed Skilled to align with the Department of Home Affairs requirement for the date an applicant’s employment
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Immigration SA has conducted a mid-year review of its occupation lists – the State Nominated Occupation List (SNOL) and the Supplementary Skilled List (SSL), with some limited changes as a result (Note: the lists undergo greater change at each new program year). Changes will take effect on the afternoon of 11 February 2019. Four occupations have
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Business and Skilled Migration Queensland has also updated the Queensland Skilled Occupation Lists (QSOL) from today, 1 February 2019, as quotas have been reached for this program year. Four occupations have been removed from the list for this program year ICT Business Analyst – 1111 Quantity Surveyor – 233213 Construction Project Manager – 133111 Marketing
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